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Entries tagged with "Larry+Holmes":

• GOAT: Mayweather vs. Marciano – May 6th, 2013

  With Mayweather’s dismantling of Robert Guerrero still fresh in everyone’s mind, the superlatives are flying fast and furious...
  
  

• Measuring Mayweather – May 3rd, 2013

  The careers of Benny Leonard, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong and others in the boxing pantheon attest that defeats do not always debunk...
  
  

• The Artistic Afterlife of Carl “The Truth” Williams – April 15th, 2013

  
  
  

• Larry Holmes vs. Trevor Berbick – April 11th, 2013

  On April 11, 1981 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, from Easton, Pennsylvania by way of Cuthbert, Georgia, defended his title against Trevor Berbick, from Port Antonio, Jamaica. Holmes was undefeated at 36-0 coming in. Berbick was 18-1. The fight was scheduled…
  
  

• Ten-Count for Carl “The Truth” Williams – April 7th, 2013

  “I still say that I could have continued,” Williams said. “Even Mike said the fight shouldn't have been stopped…”
  
  

• "Don King Unauthorized" Documentary – April 6th, 2013

  Don King is an institution. A self-described "black Horatio Alger," his rags-to-riches, Cinderella story is the American Dream come to life. But if we pull back the curtain and look beyond the wild hair, smiling countenance, bespoke jean jackets, and fluttering stars and stripes, a darker picture emerges,…
  
  

• Heavyweight Champions Respond – April 5th, 2013

  My presumption to rank and write about the Top Ten Heavyweight Champions provoked comments I initially considered severe...
  
  

• Top Ten Heavyweight Champions – April 2nd, 2013

  Let us set aside the present and recall the days of more gifted and charismatic champions. Here are the ten best heavyweights of all time…
  
  

• In Lieu of Flowers – March 28th, 2013

  
  
  

• Gluttony Is No Sin – March 24th, 2013

  LaMotta’s jaw was something of an open challenge, but similar to a fairground game the chance of cracking it was anywhere between slim and none...
  
  

• The Time Warp That Is Gleason’s Gym – March 16th, 2013

  During the 1940s a lot of champions came out of Gleason’s Gym. Jake LaMotta trained there, as did three-time world champion Carlos Ortiz…
  
  

• The 100 Greatest Fighters of All Time Part Three: 80-71 – March 12th, 2013

  Should conservatism in matchmaking become the norm, much of the oxygen that allows greatness to burn is sucked from the room...
  
  

• The Brutal Separation of Man and Boy – March 10th, 2013

  At least the beaten Marvis remained standing, and there was definitely a sliver of pride in that when facing a prime Larry Holmes...
  
  

• The End of the King? – March 10th, 2013

  
  
  

• Open Letter to Dan Rafael – February 20th, 2013

  
  
  

• Sugar & Spice: Mosley vs. Malignaggi – January 14th, 2013

  
  
  

• Ray Arcel: Dean of Them All – January 8th, 2013

  “If you watch videos of the old-time fights from the late 1920s through the 1930s right into the early ‘40s, invariably you’ll see Ray Arcel…”
  
  

• The 15 Greatest Composite Punchers of All Time – December 26th, 2012

  A great fighter is so much more than a collection of physical attributes, even if they are lucky enough to possess an absolutely extraordinary one...
  
  

• Larry Holmes vs. Ken Norton – December 24th, 2012

  Complaining about the current state of the heavyweight division is like beating a dead horse. It may be satisfying on some level, but that old gray mare ain't what she used to be. Larry Holmes fought Ken Norton at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the WBC heavyweight title on June 9, 1978. Holmes had beaten…
  
  

• Calling It a Day – December 19th, 2012

  For the select few, though the desire to perform still burns within, logic ultimately prevents them, painfully so, like a tether which stops a bird from flying...
  
  

• Dick Tiger vs. Henry Hank: A Golden Era of Middleweight Boxers – December 17th, 2012

  For Tiger, the bout with Hank proved to be the final eliminator before challenging and defeating Gene Fullmer for the world middleweight championship...
  
  

• Thirty Years Ago Today: Tex Cobb Meets Larry Holmes – November 26th, 2012

  Although the fight looked like a train wreck and Cosell was calling for it to be stopped, Tex told me wasn't hurt at all…
  
  

• Wladimir Klitschko Pitches a Perfect Shutout – November 10th, 2012

  Many of us watching the fight felt Steward’s energy circulating about in that ring, propelling Wladimir to look as dynamic as ever…
  
  

• Larry Holmes vs. Alfredo Evangelista – November 10th, 2012

  On November 10, 1978 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, WBC heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, from Easton, Pennsylvania, defended his newly won title for the first time against Alfredo Evangelista, from Montevideo, Uruguay. Holmes won the title five months earlier over Ken Norton by disputed split…
  
  

• Top Rank/Golden Boy: Little Men Big – October 10th, 2012

  Little Men Big it shall the next few weeks and thanks to Top Rank, Golden Boy and some throwback unique fighters we shall enjoy!
  
  

• High Times: Michael Dokes and Doc Anderson – October 8th, 2012

  Anderson said he heard “the heavy breathing of a large black dude with a big Afro who was trying to get my attention...”
  
  

• If You're Black, Get Back – October 5th, 2012

  The flashy and talkative Adrien Broner spoke with RingTV.com and inadvertently opened a can of worms...
  
  

• Brockton Honors “The Rock” – September 24th, 2012

  Brockton, Massachusetts is a multi-ethnic and densely populated city located in a working-class setting of about 94,000 people on the outskirts of Boston...
  
  

• Boxing by the Book: "At the Fights" – September 23rd, 2012

  In this fine boxing anthology, John Schulian calls “boxing, prizefighting, the sweet science, the fight game...the best friend a writer ever had..."
  
  

• Larry Holmes vs. Michael Spinks – September 21st, 2012

  On September 21, 1985 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Larry Holmes, aka the Easton Assassin, defended his IBF heavyweight title against light heavyweight champion Michael Spinks. It was the 27-0 Spinks' first fight at heavyweight. Holmes was 48-0 and on the cusp of tying Rocky Marciano's…
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Fifteen – September 7th, 2012

  The fight was held at the Exposition Building in Portland, Maine, and Roger Phillips received a payday of $750, one of his largest…
  
  

• Back to Formula – August 19th, 2012

  Knowing his pupil’s weakness was key and to stop him from getting distracted, Futch devised a foolproof plan—keep Bowe busy...
  
  

• Don King: Only in America – August 19th, 2012

  When HBO first broadcast Don King: Only in America in 1997, Don King was not pleased. A serio-comic dramatization of the life of the wild-haired promoter based on the book of the same name by thorn-in-the-side Jack Newfield, the film starred Ving Rhames as King, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lloyd Price,…
  
  

• Tyson to 50 Cent: Watch Your Back – August 19th, 2012

  The live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse ethos saw him burn through cash like there was no tomorrow...
  
  

• Ken Norton Hospitalized – August 11th, 2012

  
  
  

• Ten-Count for Elmo Adolph – August 10th, 2012

  
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Twelve – July 7th, 2012

  Being a serious boxing fan means accumulating a memory bank of great fights. For me, it also means Juan “Kid” Meza vs. Jaime Garza…
  
  

• Muhammad Ali Tops Boxing.com All Time Heavyweight Poll – June 18th, 2012

  The response to the poll from you—our valued readers— was nothing short of fantastic and we thank you all...
  
  

• Banish Those Bradley Blues: Five Reasons to Smile – June 15th, 2012

  Most boxing people want to believe deep down inside that Paul Williams can find a way back—maybe even back to boxing…
  
  

• How to Box by Joe Louis: Part 2—The Jab & Left Hook – June 12th, 2012

  Arthur Donovan expressed his concern that the Bomber would one day catch someone moving in and “break his neck”...
  
  

• John Scully Visits Ali's Training Camp – May 25th, 2012

  “The wait in the dressing room before a professional boxing match—that last hour—could be enough to strip a man who never boxed before of whatever pride, desire and heart he THOUGHT he had…”—Iceman John Scully, April 2002 Iceman John Scully, former super middleweight/light heavyweight…
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Two – April 10th, 2012

  
  
  

• Cinderella Men: Mike Weaver – April 9th, 2012

  In the last minute of the last round, Mike Weaver landed a punch of which Joe Louis or Rocky Marciano would have been proud…
  
  

• A Literal and Literary Boxing Journeyman – April 4th, 2012

  “People who think they’d have nothing in common with someone like me,” says Bozic, “and then all of a sudden, I’m reciting Emily Dickenson…”
  
  

• The Big Bombers: Shavers & Co. – April 2nd, 2012

  Like a big shark casting its shadow, you simply never knew what Shavers was going to do next. Would he simply bump you or take a big bite?
  
  

• Real Life by a Real Fighter II – March 28th, 2012

  
  
  

• Who Died and Left You King? – March 27th, 2012

  With all his experience in the advertizing business, Sugar cleverly promoted himself as the cigar-chomping front man, the Damon Runyon of his era...
  
  

• Easton Assassin Takes His Shot – March 24th, 2012

  Things change and time heals all wounds. Former champion Larry Holmes is now one of the grand old men of the heavyweight party...
  
  

• First Round KOs – March 21st, 2012

  Here's a look at some of the most significant early KOs ever to grace the sometimes graceless heavyweight division…
  
  

• When Harry Met Ali (Documentary) – March 9th, 2012

  There are no shortage of documentaries on Muhammad Ali. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are better than most. The documentary "When Harry Met Ali" is better than most and is narrated by British boxing writer Harry Carpenter, who followed Ali from his earliest days to the end of his remarkable…